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xebiann · Sep 27, 2007, 02:14 PM // 14:14

Hi all im playing guild wars and also wow but i have a monthley downlaod limit of 3gb as guild wars does not have other players walking around other than in towns as with wow u are always seeing other players eny advice or help with this mater really could do with a fast responce of some kind also with 3gb how menny hours of play would i get per month?kind regards steven

ps sory for eny spellin mistakes lol.

immortius · Sep 27, 2007, 02:34 PM // 14:34

Outside of updates, Guild Wars uses very little bandwidth. I'ld say at least 150 hours a month based off 5kB/second.

Kale Ironfist · Sep 27, 2007, 11:12 PM // 23:12

So long as you don't download any updates or maps you don't have, you get a stream rate of less than 1k a second most times (I tend to get an average 400-600 bytes a second).

Occasionally, that increases, but I've never seen it go above 2k/sec or so.

Tachyon · Sep 28, 2007, 04:09 AM // 04:09

3GB a month? Get a better ISP!

Mkilbride2599 · Sep 28, 2007, 05:45 AM // 05:45

Comcast allows 600GB a month, and that's not even for company usage, so it's so awesome. Great if your located in the US.

Explodie · Sep 28, 2007, 06:42 AM // 06:42

O.o' What do you guys mean with download limit?

We here in the netherlands have one download speed and you have to do with it :P
(1000 KB/sec FTW!)

$neekie · Sep 28, 2007, 10:16 AM // 10:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Explodie

O.o' What do you guys mean with download limit?

We here in the netherlands have one download speed and you have to do with it :P
(1000 KB/sec FTW!)

Your right about the no download limit(although het net still has it). But not everybody has the same speed m8. Depends on cable or dsl,wich provider,how much you pay, ect ect. Just like the rest of the world......

mzzls

xebiann · Sep 28, 2007, 12:11 PM // 12:11

Thanks to all for the advice but i live in a 3rd floor flat and have no phoneline and am not able to have one so im using my 3g contarct phone as a modem i get 3gb limit so do u think i would get 150 hours of guild wars does it take less usage than wow?also does it take more when i go into towns with other people there?

Cahalith · Sep 28, 2007, 02:03 PM // 14:03

I have a 2GB/week and 512MB upload bandwidth cap, but that's because I'm at college and Rutgers requires the bandwidth cap for dorm users. That said, I play about 2 hours of GW a day and find it's about 5MB download and 1.5-2MB up per hour. I don't think you're going to go over, unless you're getting huge amounts of patches OR downloading other large files.

Jade Barbosa · Sep 30, 2007, 05:42 AM // 05:42

Guild wars and World of Warcraft are about the same (WoW is a little higher though) for just playing the games. You just need to be careful with the updates and try to find how big they are before you download them, one thing I had to do once was to get a friend to burn his gw.dat on to a DVD then just copy that onto your computer, It'll save you a hell of a lot of bandwidth (especially if they -image before copying it).